EA Cuts Jobs at Respawn: 670 Jobs Lost
I just read a news article on the BBC today, "Star Wars game cancelled as EA cuts 670 jobs". The game is Respawn's project so I am thinking the 670 jobs are at Respawn. I question how this will eff...
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Fortnite/Epic Games announcing a big coop with Disney (Star Wars, Marvel, cartoons etcetc). https://youtu.be/Yf2bRcSIUsE?si=3_utE2RNxmc9r5Yl
EA focusing on in house stuff and cutting jobs.
Looks like they lost account/licensing deal and had to cut jobs because of it.
Understandable and sad situation. But could also mean Apex gets more interest inside the company => improvements on the game (or even better Apex 2.0 done correctly from the start 🤞)
@Airish85 Epic cut 16% last fall. Microsoft cut like 1900 employees in the games division recently and Riot cut like 11% of theirs. Every company is doing it. And from my experience even companies that do not need to do it will do it if everyone else is, just to cut some of the low performing away.
Relax guys. They will always need that one employer whose job it is to routinely ban me every time I attempt to create an Apex Legends account.
@hayhor So 670 jobs out ~13 000 means they cut significantly less than the competitors. Also if you look closely the cuts were targeting certain studios & projects like the new Star Wars FPS game that was in development that support my theory of losing the IP license to Epic.
@Airish85They didn't lose the IP license. Respawn is still making the next Jedi game. The SW game that was cut was an entirely new Mandalorian game that was in very early development. Disney is specifically targeting fortnite. They already have skins for SW and other Disney stuff. Now fortnite will probably have modes and stuff that are related. Who knows. They invested a lot in Epic.
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